The Gauntlet

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I sat on the lunch table with my legs crossed

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I sat on the lunch table with my legs crossed. I spent the night in jail thanks to that dumb ass fight. Course I get out to a nice article from Alice Cooper basically claiming the southside is shit and I'm a shit person.

I smoked a cigarette as Jughead called outside. "Nice article your girlfriend's Mom wrote." Sweet Pea said and Jughead looked at me before turning back to him.

"Yeah, I saw that." He fell silent before saying, "Dilton Doiley said he was stabbed when a bunch of you guys jumped him." I scoffed and said, "Idiot stabbed himself. With his own knife." Sweet Pea then said, "And we didn't jump him, there was a fight, Bulldogs versus Serpents, and you see this?" Sweet Pea pointed to his black eye, "Your boy Andrews gave it to me. Just before his girlfriend shot a gun into the air."

Jughead then asked, "What happened?" I scoffed and said, "And of course, Northsiders get off scot-free, and the rest of us are hauled in by the police. I spent a lovely night in a jail cell"

"It's payback time." Sweet Pea said and I rolled my eyes. "What are you guys talking about" Jughead asked. "This." Sweet Pea smirked referring to the blueprints in front of them "What is that?" Jughead asked before he called out, "Is that a pipebomb?"

"Fogarty's cousin served in the Army. He's gonna build us something." I told him conivingly. "We'll do it after hours, but it'll shut the Riverdale register down once and for all." Fangs explained, "You think blowing up a building is going to make things better?" Jughead asked. "Can't get any worse" Sweet Pea said and I looked at my brother as he said, "Yeah, Sweet Pea, it can. Let me talk to Archie. Let me figure this out. Okay?"

"Man, that's your answer for everything. Talk and more talk." Sweet Pea said and I stood up, "And we don't even know who you stand with. Us? Or them? You can't be half a Serpent." I sneered and threw my cigarette on the ground before storming away.

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Toni was the last serpent as the table as Jughead sighed sitting. "Great. So Archie started World War III." Jughead sighed. "Northside has been dumping on us for years. Your dad tried to keep the peace, avoid bloodshed. Now that he's gone, idiots like Sweet Pea and hot heads like your sister, granted she has her moments, think there's only one path and one solution. Violence." Toni snapped at him.

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